Mighty Lankans!

-Disha Mashelkar

Kumar Sangakkara has won the hearts of every cricket fan in this year’s cricket world cup. Sri Lanka has played four matches in this tournament of which, he now has four consecutive tons in the CWC2015, which is a record he made yesterday. In a match against Scotland at Bellerive, Oval, Sri Lanka defeated Scotland by 148 runs. The 195 runs partnership made between T Dilshan (104) and K Sangakkara (124) was spectacular; where both the players scored a handsome century.

T. Dilshan also showed a power performance by scoring 104 runs which consisted of ten fours and one six! Both the key players managed to put up a mammoth total of 363 runs on the scoreboard looking at which Scottish players must have got into sweaty palms. It was not a bad chase by Scotland who scored 215 runs but was all out for 43.1 overs. Sri Lanka’s bowling department- Nuwan Kulasekara and Dushmantha Chameera both plucked 3 wickets each and gave a hard time to Scottish batsmen on the pitch. From Scotland team, captain Preston Mommesen (60 runs) and Freddie Coleman (70 runs) tried to show some good performance but to avail no win!

This world cup is going to be the last one for Kumar Sangakkara. So also Shahid Afridi is playing his last world cup. The two Asian teams (Sri Lanka and Pakistan) will definitely like to win this world cup for their special teammate both of whom have been known for their charismatic performance in cricket. Making and breaking records is a part and parcel of every game of cricket. Kumar Sangakkara will be remembered always for his records in the cricket as well as for his wicketkeeping. He also broke Adam Gilchrist record of all-time world cup dismissal tally. This world cup the Lions are roaring loud and clear and with Kumar Sangakkara in the teams side looks like the roaring won’t stop soon!